Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.